Exodus 37:9
Spreading their wings, and covering the propitiatory, and looking one towards the other, and towards it.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- extendentes alas, et tegentes propitiatorium, seque mutuo et illud respicientes.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּהְי֣וּ הַכְּרֻבִים֩ פֹּרְשֵׂ֨י כְנָפַ֜יִם לְמַ֗עְלָה סֹֽכְכִ֤ים בְּכַנְפֵיהֶם֙ עַל הַכַּפֹּ֔רֶת וּפְנֵיהֶ֖ם אִ֣ישׁ אֶל אָחִ֑יו אֶל הַכַּפֹּ֔רֶת הָי֖וּ פְּנֵ֥י הַכְּרֻבִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Covering... This indicated that the Scriptures were to be studied with diligence, as they have a literal and a mystical sense. (St. Gregory of Nyssa)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.